Nigo’s BAPE Best of To Be Released as Book

Riddle me this: it looks like a gold bullion but is actually a book; it’s half Italian, half Japanese and all style? That would be the latest book published by Italian media group Rizolli and authored by Japanese trend-setter NIGO, famous for his work as a DJ as well as his “A Bathing Ape” (BAPE) line of urban clothes.

In this book, NIGO has gathered his favorite 108 pieces from the BAPE collection, in a follow-up to the top 50 favorite BAPE items that were originally published in his honeyee.com blog last year. The book – titled “BAPE archives by NIGO”, will be released on April 1, 2012. It will be available in English, Japanese and Chinese editions, and sold at bookstores all around the world as well as in BAPE stores.

The author is already planning a second book that will collect all his favorite BAPE items that were created by guest designers, as opposed to this book where he was a least partly responsible for the design of each item.